Lose Your Head
“''It's the complete absence of fear, like there is no border between you and the others...''”
Luis travels to Berlin for a weekend of partying and meets Viktor, a mysterious man who captivates him. Mistaken for Dimitri, Viktor’s missing ex-partner, Luis becomes entangled in Viktor’s controlling world, leading to a surreal experience where reality blurs. Inspired by the true story of a young Portuguese man who disappeared after a night at Berghain.
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Release Date: 2/8/2013
Runtime: 105 minutes
Languages: English, German
Directors: Patrick Schuckmann, Stefan Westerwelle
Budget: $0.4M
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Companies: Mutter-Film Produktions
Countries: Germany
Where to watch · US
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CinemaSerf
This is quite a complex thriller about "Luis" (Fernando Tielve) who heads to Berlin as a relatively young, open but naive young man. He is soon exposed to the grittier parts of the city and to dangerous and predatory scenarios, meeting the deceptively charismatic "Viktor" (Marco Mandic) as he and some new friends he has met try to search for their missing brother (whom "Luis" bears a considerable resemblance too). Now we descend into a spiral of self-feeding temptation as he slowly loses control - and his sense of reality. The two lead performances are well delivered and it's tautly directed with an entirely satisfactorily inconclusive ending.
